The death toll in the Chinese ship sinking has exceeded 400.

The death toll from the Yangtze River ferry disaster today has risen to 431, while 11 people remain missing.

Rescue teams righted the ship and found hundreds of bodies (Internet).

Only 14 people survived, while 11 others remain missing, Xinhua quoted a rescue commander in Jianli County, Hubei Province, central China, as saying.

Rescue workers found six bodies after searching about 200 kilometers downstream, Zhou Xuguang, commander of the Hubei Army Corps of the armed police force, said at a press conference yesterday afternoon. Yesterday morning, rescue workers found the body of the youngest victim, a 3-year-old girl, on the fourth deck of the ship.

The 2,200-ton Eastern Star cruise ship, carrying 456 people, capsized on China's largest river when a tornado passed through.

Today marks seven days since the ship sank, and according to Chinese tradition, this is an important day to remember the deceased.

State television showed rescue workers and government officials standing on barges looking toward the Eastern Star, removing their hats and bowing their heads in three minutes of silence, as sirens blared from nearby vessels.

The Eastern Star disaster has now caused more casualties than the Sewol ferry sinking in April 2014, which killed 304 people, mostly children on a field trip. This incident is China's worst maritime disaster in seven decades.

(According to Reuters/VNExpress)